2018 Olympics

Americans have become increasingly more racist and intolerant of their fellow citizens in the past few years. Rhetoric and policies by Donald Trump, Mike Pence and various leaders of the Republic Party have sought to treat people who are not Straight, White and Christian as second class citizens.

This series will be updated throughout the olympics to track separate US Olympic Medal counts for “Straight White Christian America” and citizens who are routinely persecuted for their ethnicity, religion or sexuality.

Medal Counts may be adjusted as more background information on athletes becomes available.

Global Standings

2018.02.23

A unified Team America is in 4th place overall with 21 medals. Without “Routinely Persecuted Americans”, “White Christian America” would drop to 15 medals – a tied 5th place (with France), behind the Netherlands.

Rank

Country

All Medals

1

Norway

37

2

Canada

27

3

Germany

26

4

USA

21

5

Netherlands

18

6

France

15

7

Russia

14

The disqualifiers

Key

mark

disqualifier

*

not white

$

immigrant

$$

child of immigrant(s)

™

lgbtq

&

not christian

Notes – Researched

Adam Rippon – LGBTQ icon

Alex Shibutani – Asian, parents of Chinese descent

Arielle Gold – Jewish

Chloe Kim – Asian, parents immigrated from South Korea

Maia Shibutani – Asian, parents of Chinese descent

Mirai Nagasu – Asian, parents are Japanese citizens

Nathan Chen – Asian, parents immigrated from China

Carlijn Schoutens – Born in NJ to Dutch parents, raised in the Netherlands, moved back to USA to compete

Notes 2 – Needs more research

Alex Ferreira – Alex’s father played soccer for the River Plate club in Buenos Aries Argentina, however his birthplace has not yet been determined.